¹⁴ Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.

³⁷ He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

³⁸ Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.

²⁶ I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;

²⁷ Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.

²⁸ For they are a nation void of counsel, There is no understanding in them.

²⁷ It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened.

²⁸ They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

¹³ Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? get you to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother. The king of Israel said to him, No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

²⁵ But you have ignored all my counsel, And wanted none of my reproof;

²⁶ I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

²⁷ When calamity overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you.

³ What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?

²⁸ But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.